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Originally Posted by evanny
i am well aware Japan has different seasons and climates. however they are not the kind the tourists usually go for. Japan has snow - so what? anyone will choose Alps over Japan. Japan has beaches - most people will chose Hawaii or Egypt over Japan.
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You are obviously not someone really into winter sports. At the ski resort I worked at every year saw an increasing amount of tourism from Europe. Most Japanese resorts receive far more snow than any European ski resort receives. Most Japanese resorts receive powder snow of a quality that is rare to find in Europe. Japan obviously will never see great hordes coming from Europe or North America but they do have the SE Asian market on their doorstep which is huge.
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Originally Posted by evanny
history - not as diverse in eyes of many or mainstream. do you think more people will know who Tokugawa was or King Arthur? or what the fuck General Perry was?
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That really is a very Eurocentric view of the world (gee you're from Europe aren't you?
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Originally Posted by evanny
that is not to say Japan isn't a nice place. it is. but it is not mainstream and probably never will. it is too clean and neat and also too expensive for most people and the history for average joe, as said before, ends with samurai and geisha.
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You obviously haven't ever been to Japan? Japan is hardly all that expensive anymore. Maybe it once was but really it wouldn't be somewhere I consider expensive to travel to at all. For an Australian it's far more expensivve for me to travel to Europe than to Japan. Same goes for anyone in Asia. As JBaymore points out your views are incredibly Eurocentric. Most of the world doesn't live in Europe you know?
